Oversight
Funded by the Home Office, the MVRP is under the direct governance and oversight of Merseyside’s Police Commissioner (PCC) Emily Spurrell.
This oversight is driven through the Police and Crime Commissioner’s Merseyside Strategic Policing and Partnership Board (MSPPB).
The MSPPB brings together senior leaders from police, community safety, health, local government, and wider partners to focus on key policing and community safety priorities and to ensure the
delivery of the police and crime plan.
The Board provides strategic oversight of serious violence
reduction activity, receives assurance on performance and risk, and oversees the sub-groups that support effective partnership delivery.
The Police and Crime Commissioner is also supported in this work by a Steering Group.
The MVRP Steering Group
The MVRP Steering Group are responsible for providing governance and direction to our team. This includes supporting the development and delivery of the MVRP projects by contributing their expertise to strategy, performance, finance, targets and reputation.
They also monitor performance against those targets and risks. The MVRP Steering Group meet every quarter to provide governance, oversight, and guidance to the work of the core team.
Prevention
Many functions of the MVRP are also run in conjunction with Merseyside Police.
The MVRP’s works to help Merseyside Police and wider partners to better understand crime, how it affects our communities and ultimately prevent it from happening in the first place.
Review
We also recognise the importance of effective academic review and evaluation.
That’s why we work closely with the Public Health Institute at Liverpool John Moores University to review our work and the programmes we support and fund and evaluate our interventions
